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  • A bloodless revolution in the 1688 that overthrew the absolute monarchy and established a constituent monarchy in england is Glorious Revolution
  • A revolution, led by George Washington, in which Americans in 13 colonies fought against the British Empire to form the United States of America on July 4, 1776 is called American Revolution
  • A revolution from 1787 to 1799 that put an end to the French monarchy, feudalism and led to the formation of the French Consulate is called French Revolution
  • A revolution that took place from 1791 to 1804 in Saint-Domingue, a former of French colony, where the slaves fought for their freedom and finally succeeded in forming the sovereign state of Haiti- the first black republic in the world. Haitian Revolution
  • A pair of revolution in 1917 in which the members of the russian Bolshevik party, led by Vladimir Lenin, revoted against the despotic rule of the Tsar Nicholas II and established the world's first communist country, the Soviet Union is called the Russian Revolution
  • A revoluton in China from 1911 to 1949, that overthrew the Qing dynasty and led to the establishment of the Communist rule in People's Republic of China under the leadership of Mao Zedong is called the Chinese Revolution
  • A revolution in India from 1857 to 1947, in which numerous freedom fighters such as Rani Lakshmibai, Mangal Pandey, Bhagat Singh, Subhas Chandra Bose, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Dr. Rajendra Prasad, Jawaharlal Nehru and Mahatma Gandhi fought against the British rule to make India independent on 15 August 1947 is called India Independence Movement
  • A non-violent revolution in which a black activist Nelson Mandela spent 27 years in prison for opposing the government's atrocities against black south Africans and led the way for the abolition of apartheid a.k.a. racial segregation in 1944 is called South African Revolution